thugs

Synonyms

vandal briony thuggee gangster Crooks

Examples

A libertarian is someone who can believe that the police are no more than a gang of thugs without realizing that in the absence of police, thugs will gather into gangs. S. M. Stirling

We did not charge hundreds of miles into the heart of Iraq and pay a bitter cost of casualties and liberate 25 million people only to retreat before a band of thugs and assassins. George W. Bush

This is absurd. There is nothing far-right about Anne Marie Waters. #HopeNotHate is a far-left hate group on the same moral level as the thugs of #Antifa. Same views. Same stripe. They are the real fascists. Pat Condell

It was the work of opportunists, crooks, thugs for their own self-gain and interest. Kamisese Mara

The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs. Sandra Bernhard

Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization. Tony Snow